Atlanta SWAT Team Used to Capture Pirates

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Atlanta SWAT Team Used to Capture Pirates

Fox Atlanta is reporting that a Fulton County SWAT Team and an ominously dressed RIAA Anti-Piracy Unit raided, yes, raided, the recording studios of DJ Drama and DJ Cannon.

The dramatic duo was selling mixed CDs online at gangstagrillz.com, and the raiders confiscated at least 50,000 mixed CDs of copyrighted music. While they were at it, they confiscated the cut creators’ money, recording equipment, and cars (why not?).

RIAA representative Matthew Kilgo (mailto: mkilgo@riaa.com) said that the pirates could make up to 900% profit from the sale of counterfeit CDs. According to researchers at Wired, a CD-R costs about a penny and fifteen songs cost about $15. Or, you could just steal the music in the first place and then burn CDs leaving you with a profit margin of infinity. Good business model, except for the completely illegal part.

Although these guys were definitely gangstas, the raiding party seems a little excessive just to stop some pirates. It’s not like they had Cannons.